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Tipping off the enemy
LA Times ^ | June 24, 2007 | Gabriel Schoenfeld,

Posted on 06/25/2007 12:53:00 PM PDT by rightalien

SO FAR, four Iranian Americans have been detained by the Iranian government and charged with espionage. The most well-known case is that of Haleh Esfandiari of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, who was detained and later arrested after traveling to Tehran to see her 93-year-old mother late last year. The most recent case is that of Ali Shakeri, a "peace activist" from Irvine, who was arrested in mid-May.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: esfandiari; iran; media

1 posted on 06/25/2007 12:53:02 PM PDT by rightalien
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To: rightalien

I thought this article was about the liberal MSM.


2 posted on 06/25/2007 1:46:08 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Bobkk47
I thought this article was about the liberal MSM.

IT IS!
Read on...

...the Los Angeles Times ran a story under the headline "CIA Looks to Los Angeles for Would-Be Iranian Spies," disclosing on its front page that the CIA was recruiting Iranian Americans in Southern California, home to the largest concentration of Iranian emigres in the United States.

3 posted on 06/25/2007 1:54:48 PM PDT by Bon mots
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